【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

The TV is playing a third-rate romantic drama that is not nutritious at all. All the curtains in the room are drawn, tightly blocking the sunlight from outside the room. Yumiko Sakaguchi stares numbly at the only light source in the dark room, Attention is given to the tearful heroine.

Her gaze still stayed at a certain point in the room, but her thinking had already extended to a farther space.

What should I do?

Hong Shu, what should mother do?

Or was saving you wrong in the first place?

To put it in the words of others, Yumiko Sakaguchi is a woman who grew up bathed in the envy of others.

From the moment she was born, she seemed to be doomed to be extraordinary in this life. With the talents bestowed on her by God, she became a master without any surprise. , became an excellent government official.

With a strong personality and always advocating late marriage and childbearing, she married an ordinary company employee named Masaharu Koyanagi at the age of 32.

This man is like the antonym of all the dazzling advantages of Yumiko Sakaguchi, ordinary, cowardly, timid, and timid. The combination of the two is just following the direction pointed out by Sibyl. friction.

At the age of 39, Yumiko Sakaguchi was pregnant with her first child.

Pregnancy is not an easy task. Pregnancy reactions and weight-bearing pressure are almost negligible compared to the near-death during childbirth, but even so, Sakaguchi Yumiko felt the touch and surprise of the birth of a new life.

She named the newly born child Hongshu, hoping that the child would grow up like a tree.

But when Hiroki grew up safely to the age of six, all of Sakaguchi Yumiko's beautiful visions for the future were shattered overnight.

The little child who was only a window away from her was identified as a potential prisoner in the mental coefficient examination. Before he was completely cured, he would lose all civil rights and be locked in a cage of less than ten square meters forever.

Yumiko Sakaguchi, who has been immersed in government agencies for a long time, naturally knows that the cases of being judged as potential criminals and returning to society after treatment are rare. Basically, as long as they are confirmed as potential criminals, what awaits them will be a life-long prison disaster.

Yumiko Sakaguchi thought about giving up Hiroki to give birth again, but at the age of 45, she wanted to conceive again, which was a challenge for her child and herself.

Hiroki in the isolation facility and rumors from the outside world sharpened her heart like a sharp knife.

She tried hard to find all the means to cure Hongshu-psychotherapy, talk, hypnosis, drugs, surgery, and even tried some unconventional methods, but none of them worked.

Time passed cruelly.

A year later, Yumiko Sakaguchi learned during the task of recalling illegal hue purification equipment that this time the product could copy human body data and feed it back to a street scanner, so she took advantage of her position to replace one of the equipment that was about to be destroyed with a similar one. moldings.

The process of counterfeiting and replacement is seamless, unless the intelligence department's commissioner conducts an inspection, no one will be able to find out that a 'fake' has been mixed into the equipment that is about to be destroyed.

At first she hesitated and struggled, but when she thought of the little child in the white room blocked by the riot-proof glass curtain wall, all possible consequences were no longer important.

She had to save him.

At first, Yumiko Sakaguchi was worried that such behavior would increase her crime index, but in the end, the crime index fluctuated for several days due to uneasy conscience, and fell back to the safe line smoothly.

How in the world are parents who think about their children considered criminals?

Yumiko Sakaguchi laughed at her needless worry.

Hiroki put on an instrument that could help him regain his freedom, and he saw the world outside the cage again. Yumiko Sakaguchi showed a smile on his face. This family that was once on the edge of the cliff was able to regain his freedom because of such a small act of hers. Stand in the sun.

People around praised Hongshu as a miracle, and also praised her for working hard for Hongshu.

Yumiko Sakaguchi thought everything was back on track.

Yes, she had thought so.

Most of the time, Hong Shu is lively, smart, and lovable like other children, but occasionally he will reveal a tyrannical and cruel side like a demon.

Yumiko Sakaguchi couldn't describe in words what a terrifying scene it was when her son was angry. Even if she was as strong as she was, she could only stay away from the flame that seemed to destroy everything.

She tried to teach Hiroki to hide that black self, but the smiling teenager just made a colder declaration than ever:

"Since you brought me into this world and let me out without permission, please take responsibility, Mom?"

Hiroki Sakaguchi's behavior became more unbearable every day.

From watching bloody and cruel film and television works at the beginning, wandering in abandoned areas, to frequent physical conflicts with classmates, torturing and killing small animals, to using her identity as the mother of a civil servant in the Security Bureau to obtain information on murder cases.

If this continues, the child will one day walk on a path of no return.

Sakaguchi Yumiko's reason is calling her to tell everything.

But what about your own future?Do you want to destroy everything for such a child?

Sakaguchi Yumiko's sensibility is preventing her from taking this path that will be cast aside by thousands of people.

To be a real mother, or to be yourself?

Yumiko Sakaguchi finally made a choice.

Hiroki Sakaguchi also made a choice.

A choice was made between putting on a mask and re-entering the life expected by her mother, and tearing off her disguise and revealing her fangs.

"I killed someone."

Said the child, the child that Yumiko Sakaguchi raised with blood and tears.

Like a child who was telling his relatives about what happened at school today, he stood in front of the house where the moonlight was shining in the early morning, tilted his head, and said so.

Yumiko Sakaguchi thought he was joking at first, but soon, the boy took out a blood-stained coat and a bone-chopping knife from his backpack, and put it in front of her as if showing off his victory.

"I disposed of the body outside and threw it away. I don't know when the police will find it. If this continues, I will be arrested sooner or later. Help me, mother."

Why can't I go to a smooth life as I expected at first?

Is everything I've done for you wrong?

But what am I going to do to save you now, Hong Shu?

At that moment, such a question broke into Sakaguchi Yumiko's calm heart.

In the beginning, it was actually just a very small thing.

Hong Shu became good friends with a classmate at school who admired serial killers.

It's just such a simple little thing.

Then, they conspired to recreate a certain murder.

Hong Shu used her status in the intelligence department to screen the information of the 'victims', and then lured them to a remote corner where the surveillance probes could not reach.

killed.

Mentioning this word, Sakaguchi Yumiko's eyes always flashed blood red.

She couldn't imagine what it must have been like for the girls who were killed to die.

Life has given her enough training, and it has also deprived her of empathy for the pain of others.

Using the functions of the Intelligence Division of the Security Bureau can easily interfere with the investigation of the Criminal Division. At first, it was for Hong Shu to forge an alibi and modify the intelligence information. Successfully made the criminal department stop in the middle of the investigation.

Yumiko Sakaguchi thought that sooner or later her heart would become as dark as Hiroki's.

But fate just made her make mistakes again and again.

How in the world are parents who think about their children considered criminals?

This time Yumiko Sakaguchi couldn't laugh.

She was not a good mother from the beginning, she was always herself, the self who did everything for her own vanity and face.

An enviable background is a harmonious and happy family, and so are children who grow up healthily.

Everything she does is for herself.

The self who yearns so much to be happier than anyone else and is so miserable.

"What are we going to do now? Huh? What are we going to do—?"

With trembling wailing, Koyanagi Masaharu stripped Sakaguchi Yumiko from the memories that were lukewarmly paralyzing her.

"What should I do?" She looked at the man pacing back and forth in the dark living room in a daze.

"Your good son! That demon who kills without blinking an eye! You and I have paid so much for him! What is he doing—?! Curled in his comfort zone and planning who to kill next?!"

"Shut up—!" Yumiko Sakaguchi screamed frantically: "Listen! No matter who comes to the door next! You are not allowed to tell any news about Hiroki's whereabouts!"

"It's already reached this point! You still want to cover him?!"

Sakaguchi Yumiko stared at the flickering TV screen without moving, and said with a sad smile:

"That's my only child."

At the moment when the two were silent at the same time, the only light source in the room suddenly dimmed silently.

Koyanagi Masaharu, who was already frightened, was startled, and then the video intercom at the door rang, and a young man's voice said loudly: "Excuse me, is anyone at home? That's right, the nearby circuit system is out. There is a small problem that caused power outages in some households, I am a maintenance person, please open the door, please?"

Koyanagi Masaharu subconsciously wanted to check his wife's face, but the room was dark.

"Don't open the door. I'm not in the mood right now." Yumiko Sakaguchi replied naturally.

Both of them seemed determined to ignore the young repairman who kept asking outside, but at this moment, Masaharu Koyanagi keenly heard the sound of the anti-theft door lock cylinder constantly turning from the entrance.

It seems that there is a key to open it from the outside.

"Yumiko!" Koyanagi Masaharu called out in fear.

And Yumiko Sakaguchi jumped off the sofa nimbly, and ran to the entrance quickly, trying to put on the anti-theft chain.

But she ended up being one step too late.

Through the crack of the open door came a little sunlight, and a hand holding a gun, the muzzle of the gun pressed against Yumiko Sakaguchi's chest.

"Oh, it's really pitch black." Seeing Yumiko Sakaguchi's movements stopped in place, the white-haired young man smiled slightly, opened the anti-theft door with the toe of one foot, and took a step forward following the step of the woman in front of him: "Originally, if you had opened the door, I might not have to engage in such a scene."

With the light coming in from outside the door, Accelerator saw Koyanagi Masaharu who was frozen in place due to fear: "Ah, there is just one more person, uncle over there, please lend a hand and tie up your wife. Remember to tie it tight, this guy will play tricks for real."

As he spoke, he shook the muzzle of the gun, and then with his left hand, he whipped out a bundle of rope and a roll of duct tape.

Koyanagi Masaharu's eyes wandered for a moment on the faces of his wife and the strange young man, and finally picked up the rope and tape.

Accelerator coerced Sakaguchi Yumiko to sit on the chair in front of the dining table, raised his right hand to put it on the table, and threatened Koyanagi Masaharu who was following behind to tie his arms and body to the table and the back of the chair respectively.

After one of them was immobilized in this way, Accelerator pointed his gun at Koyanagi Masaharu, forced him to sit on the chair opposite the dining table, and tied him to it.

"Aren't you a policeman?" Yumiko Sakaguchi was finally able to ask her first question.

"It used to be." Accelerator shrugged.

"What do you want?" The second question.

"You'll know what I want soon." Accelerator smiled and held Yumiko Sakaguchi's right hand, which was fixed on the table by duct tape and rope, and then put the pistol in the woman's hand.

In this way, the person who holds the power of life and death becomes Yumiko Sakaguchi, and the person whose life is threatened becomes Masaharu Koyanagi.

The woman's hand holding the gun trembled slightly.

"Then, it's time for questions. Whoever answers first will get the prize of 'walking out of this door alive'." Accelerator stood between the two, with a sharp smile on his mouth: "Hiroki Sakaguchi, where?"

In the darkness, the devil's red eyes looked at Masaharu Koyanagi, who was sitting tremblingly on a chair, facing the muzzle of the gun.

The man was watched with malicious eyes, and an unusual chill suddenly shot up his spine.

"Don't say—!" Yumiko Sakaguchi, who mistook the trembling of the man's lips for revealing the truth, growled hoarsely, and the finger on the trigger seemed to be pulled down if it was unstable.

Masaharu Koyanagi, who was so frightened to the extreme, developed a burst of courage and yelled at his wife: "Are you still going to cover up that bastard at this time?!"

"It's not your turn to tell me! If you tell Hongshu's whereabouts, you will die here!"

"You crazy woman! Do you even want to kill people because of that monster?! Sure enough, every kind of mother has such kind of son!"

"Who is the monster! Hong Shu, he is my son! Don't you, as a father, feel nothing at all?"

"Son?! I don't admit that something like that is my son! I've had enough of you monster mother and son! You are not normal at all! I don't know who you are, but listen to me, I know that Where is the guy! So please take the gun from her hand!"

"Shut up! Shut up for me!"

"Hiroki, he was originally at the Higashisaka Dental Hospital in Bunkyo Ward!"

When Koyanagi Masaharu blurted out the location of her son, Sakaguchi Yumiko pulled the trigger of the pistol without hesitation.

Gunshots rang through the room.

But the expected tragedy did not happen.

What shot out from the black muzzle was not bullets, but many ribbons and pieces of paper, hanging Masaharu Koyanagi's head and face.

The 'killer' and the 'victim' stared at the slowly falling pieces of colored paper, and both froze in place.

It's fireworks.

It turned out that the white-haired young man was holding a firework cannon in the shape of a pistol.

But the two who felt ashamed didn't show any signs of noticing.

"Hahahahaha..."

Yumiko Sakaguchi laughed.

There is no going back.

From the moment I felt the intent to kill my husband in front of me, everything can't go back.

Yumiko Sakaguchi laughed as she looked at Masaharu Koyanagi, who looked extraordinarily funny with ribbons on her face.

Smiling and laughing, two lines of tears flowed from her eyes that had never tasted grief.

There seemed to be a siren sounding somewhere far away, and the white-haired young man who had done all this had long since disappeared from the room without anyone noticing.

"Run away, Hong Shu."

Yumiko Sakaguchi muttered to herself in a trance.

You can never win this man.